[sjellis]

"It's like they're trying to get a record by not doing that. For years I've been baffled why Notepad at the very least couldn't understand unix line endings."

Probably the same reason that the CMD shell is so bad, and is only now being fixed up: since Windows is proprietary, nothing can be improved unless either the Microsoft decision-makers that are responsible for the product choose to spend budget on it, or there is a directive from higher-up in the company.